Health

Since 1999, the ANFCA has been an active advocate for improved access to culturally based health awareness and prevention delivery and resource development.

AUDI

The Aboriginal Urban Diabetes Initiative (AUDI) is designed to create awareness and increase prevention of Type 2 Diabetes among urban Aboriginal people residing throughout Alberta. The AUDI team will travel to all Alberta Native Friendship Centres and consult with Elders, and deliver positive, culturally-based prevention messages to the youth.

Current objective of AUDI are to:

  • Raise awareness of Type 2 Diabetes, its risk factors, the value of healthy lifestyles, and the importance of diabetes screening.
  • Deliver an exciting, culturally appropriate, and effective Friendship Centre-based health promotion and diabetes prevention program.
  • Provide an interactive, culturally appropriate, and effective community-based health promotion and diabetes prevention program.
  • Facilitate Friendship Centre ownership of this program to ensure long-term viability.
  • Develop and implement culturally based resource materials for use in Alberta Friendship Centres, Aboriginal Head Start Programs and other educational organizations.

Healthy Spirit

As part of the ANFCA’s ongoing commitment to being a conduit of information to local Friendship Centres and the urban Aboriginal community as a whole, the ANFCA has undertaken to create an interactive searchable database that allows easy access to culturally specific awareness, prevention, care and treatment related to Alberta-based service delivery. The first element of this database has a focus on HIV/AIDS with additional health issues being added as resources become available.